Our Texas Hunts:

Hunting packages include guided hunt, lodging, continental breakfast, lunch, kennels, bird processing, packaging and freezing. There is no additional charge for any of these services.

OUR SEASON: Our season is from the first of November to the end of February. If you would like to hunt earlier than these dates, please refer to the Saskatchewan section and consider a hunting excursion in Canada.

GOOSE HUNTING GUIDES & CRANE HUNTS:

Our morning goose hunting guides originate from our lodge in Midfield, TX.

• Wake up call is 3:30 to 4:00 a.m.
• Gather in the dining room for a continental breakfast and meet your guide.
• Your guide gives a briefing on field conditions, based on the previous day’s information.
• After breakfast, your guide takes you to a selected field based on the best conditions for successful hunting.
• At the field:
• Guide and party set out a spread of sillosocks, full body decoys and/or shell decoys.
• This is a group effort and can be accomplished in 30 minutes or less.
• The guide presents safety orientation before the hunt begins.
• Our Guides are:
• Seasoned professionals who know how to set a spread and call geese to optimize your successful hunting experience.
• No amateurs guides are allowed at Bay Prairie Outfitters.
• Stat: 80% of our clients who return request the same guide.
• All guides have 4 wheelers to haul equipment to the field.
• Basic rule:
• We reserve the right to combine hunting parties to ensure the best quality shooting for everyone. Combining parties is needed from time to time but yields larger spreads which normally equal better shoots.
• We require 6 or more for a private party.
• Hunts end at noon.
• Types of birds hunted:
• Snows
• Blues
• Ross’s
• White-fronted
• Canada
• Sandhill cranes
• Our goal:
• To provide the best hunting experience possible!
  

We suggest that you bring the following items with you to your Bay Prairie hunt:


Camo Clothing (light/warm) Flashlight Camera Rain gear

Waders Rubber boots 12 ga. 3 inch or larger for geese Shot size: BB or larger Face mask

*We also have shotgun shells for sale, shotgun and wader rentals.

Weather plays a key role in the success of our goose hunting excursions. The more turbulent and storm-filled the weather, the better for hunting. Clear, calm days will be less successful.

BAY DUCK HUNTS:

We offer both morning and afternoon bay ducks hunts that take place in the coastal marshes around the Port O'Connor/Seadrift area. For our morning hunts we also offer lodging and a continental breakfast in the same area.
We have five coast guard licensed guides with boats.
    We do not depend upon fixed blinds for our hunting success. If no brush is available where the ducks are, we will cut brush and bring it to the best area for the hunt. Our morning and afternoon ducks hunts are for a minimum of three and maximum of four hunters per blind. You may share a boat for transport with another party but we do not hunt from boats.
    Shallow water bay flats are usually hunted for pintail, redheads, widgeon and teal, but other species that are harvested include mallard, mottled duck, wood duck, bufflehead, scaup and black bellied whistling tree duck. Eighty percent of the redhead population of North America winters in the coastal marshes of Texas where we hunt regularly. We have such a variety of birds to hunt that many of our hunters collect different species for mounting.

THE BEST WAY TO ENJOY OUR TEXAS WATERFOWLING:

We suggest that you bring the following items for bay duck hunting at Bay Prairie Outfitters:

To guarantee the dates of your choice, make reservations early. We usually do book out.
A deposit is required to confirm reservations with the balance due upon arrival.
We accept Visa, MasterCard and American Express.
Deposits are non refundable, cannot be applied to someone else's balance nor applied to an upcoming season.

For Further Information And Assistance Please Call or Email
Mike Ladnier @ Bay Prairie Outfitters

Around The Lodge In Texas (Photo Tour)

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BAY PRAIRIE LODGE is located in Midfield Texas, about 80 miles southwest of Houston.
We offer full service lodging facility with a dining room for meals in a quiet comfortable setting.
Our rooms include one or two beds, cable TV, telephone, ac/heat, and private bath.
Kennels are available on-site for hunters who wish to work their own dogs.
Reservations must be made in advance if you wish to bring your own retriever.
    Our three cabins are set up for private parties of 4 or more. Each cabin will sleep 4 to 6 hunters.
Clean and comfortable, these cabins are the solution for large party accommodations.
Each cabin includes card tables, cable TV,and telephone. Cabin bathrooms are clean and private.
Bay Prairie is a clean and neat facility and we pride ourselves on the quality of our offerings.
    Our state of the art bird cleaning facility is located on the premises.
There are no fees for cleaning your birds, we do this free as part of your hunting package.
For mounting birds, we will package and freeze them for transport to your favorite taxidermist.

TRAVEL TO BAY PRAIRIE: Our lodge is located in Midfield Texas, about 80 miles southwest of Houston. FROM GEORGE BUSH & HOBBY AIRPORTS: Please ask the car rental agency directions to the Beltway 8 (Sam Houston Tollway) Take Beltway 8 southwest and follow it around to Hwy. 59 (Victoria Exit). Travel Hwy. 59 south to El Campo, take Hwy. 71 exit (El Campo/Palacios) exit off of Hwy. 59. Turn left onto Hwy. 71 and go 16.6 miles. You will come to an intersection with a blinking light and stop sign. The Bay Prairie Lodge will be to your right on the corner.

LICENSE REQUIREMENTS:
For non-resident hunters you will need a:
5 day special nonresident license along with a Texas state duck stamp and a federal duck stamp.
If you are planning to hunt Sandhill cranes please ask them for a free permit.
You can get your license two different ways:
Call TP&W at 800-895-4248 - OR- Buy your license online - Texas License Online

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